in reply to Re: Excel to PDF using Win32::OLE
in thread Excel to PDF using Win32::OLE

Thanks for your reply. Yes, when i do manually it converts properly and not getting any error while opening. Only when i do this through perl, i am getting error. Also if i didnt give the path in the Printout method, it saves the pdf file in C:/Program Files/Outlook express. I didnt changed my current directory to that. Why it is happening like that. I think that might be the reason.

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Re^3: Excel to PDF using Win32::OLE
by JamesNC (Chaplain) on May 04, 2006 at 10:17 UTC
    Then the next thing is to duplicate your perl call back in a VB sub and run that sub in the VB debugger. I would also see it Excel never quits properly using your Perl script. We encountered a problem with Win32::OLE after we went to a new service pack on Win2K and we had not changed our Perl where Win32::OLE would not let Excel die. The problem went away again after we migrated to XP. We found a workaround and it looks like voodoo. I will share it with you if you find the same issue, but I would try the manual VB sub thing and also maybe running with $excel->{Visible} = 1; just so I could keep excel alive and have a lookie at the pdf as if I were doing it manually.
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